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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Two fragments of and Early Medieval Bone Comb.
These are very small fragments from the connecting plate of a bone comb recovered from the grave fill of Skeleton 413. The individual in that grave has been radiocarbon dated to 660-777 cal AD (SEURC-97807 (GUS57338)).
The plates have small notches where the teeth would have protruded but now look like a serrated edge with four cuts on the longer edge and two on the shorter. The fragments are broken around the remains of a drilled rivet hole. The edges of the hole have a ferrous staining suggesting the rivets would have been iron. The outer domed surface is polished while the inner surface is flat and unpolished.
These is evidence of burning and within the grave fill it came from there is also a significant amount of charcoal suggesting this is all that survives of a deliberately burnt comb.
Site Name: Five Mile Lane, Vale of Glamorgan
